I am in the field and I have been tired of this bullshit for 2/3 years now. I mean unbelievable bullshit, and everyone who doesn't even know the formula for calculating the area of a circle, using the term AGI.
Now the guy who spread this bullshit admits well it's bullshit (and he continues to make money - pure pay-pal mafia strategy):
First he says AGI is not right term:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said artificial general intelligence, or “AGI,” is losing its relevance as a term as rapid advances in the space make it harder to define the concept.
AGI refers to the concept of a form of artificial intelligence that can perform any intellectual task that a human can. For years, OpenAI has been working to research and develop AGI that is safe and benefits all humanity.
“I think it’s not a super useful term,” Altman told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” last week, when asked whether the company’s latest GPT-5 model moves the world any closer to achieving AGI. The AI entrepreneur has previously said he thinks AGI could be developed in the “reasonably close-ish future.”
And he spread this bullshit just last year:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says concerns that artificial intelligence will one day become so powerful that it will dramatically reshape and disrupt the world are overblown.
“It will change the world much less than we all think and it will change jobs much less than we all think,” Altman said at a conversation organized by Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Altman was specifically referencing artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a term used to refer to a form of AI that can complete tasks to the same level, or a step above, humans.
He said AGI could be developed in the “reasonably close-ish future.”
Plus now he is saying this a bubble (even a guy like I knew this for years and he played everyone for so long):
As economists speculate whether the stock market is in an AI bubble that could soon burst, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just admitted to believing we’re in one. “Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI?” Altman said during a lengthy interview with The Verge and other reporters last night. “My opinion is yes.”
In the far-ranging interview, Altman compared the market’s reaction to AI to the dot-com bubble in the ’90s, when the value of internet startups soared before crashing down in 2000. “When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth,” Altman said. “If you look at most of the bubbles in history, like the tech bubble, there was a real thing. Tech was really important. The internet was a really big deal. People got overexcited.”
He added that he thinks it’s “insane” that some AI startups with “three people and an idea” are receiving funding at such high valuations. “That’s not rational behavior,” Altman said. “Someone’s gonna get burned there, I think.”
People got overexcited? Such a snake oil sales man this guy likes his pay-pal peers.
Yes, AI is extremely useful. Machine learning and Deep learning and other algorithms have brought so many benefits for more than a decade. But promoting LLM (a useful tool) as a panacea was done by a handful of folks like him in the industry.
The point is they knew it was bullshit and yet, they spread this.
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